There are a variety of options available for breast enlargement. The most common is to use breast implants. We’ve been using breast implants for the last forty years, and they’ve mostly been silicone type of implant. It’s a bag of silicone, covered by a silicone elastomer that has a cohesive gel silicone on the inside and it’s placed under the breast tissue, sometimes, also in fact, under the pectoralis muscle, to create the augmentation. That’s the most common procedure we have. The implants can also be made out of saline i.e they’re a bag of silicone shell, filled with salt water, and they’ve been very popular in America, but mostly we’ve been using silicone implants over here. Fairly new on the market now is the option to do breast enlargement with what’s called lipofilling, and that means using your own body fat to augment the breast volume. This is relatively new as a technique, it’s been around for ten years or so, but it’s only in the last two or three years that we’ve started regularly using it for breast enlargement. The beauty of that is that you get to suck fat from one part of your body where there’s some unwanted fat, such as the hips and the thighs, and then you can inject it into the breast creating a very natural augmentation, without any of the pitfalls that come with breast implants.
